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Intro
Many of you might have heard of 9minecraft. It is a site, run by various unknown people, that uploads our content, whether it is protected by a licence or not, and monetises it with adverts. Along with this, they licence the work as their own, which is illegal, even if your work isn't protected by a licence. This is a matter that affects mods, texture packs, datapacks, maps and other PMC projects.
What they do
9minecraft. net is a site run by various unknown (more later) people who take our content and reupload it, with spyware, adware, and ads on the page. The reuploaders are cracked players, meaning there is nothing we can do in the code of our projects to stop them. Once they have downloaded the project, they take new screenshots, a new description, and edit a new thumbnail. They also pretend that you uploaded it, by saying the author is your name:
This is bad. This website, which is illegal and wrong, is stealing our content, adding spyware and malware to it, and giving it to unknowing and trusting members of society who think they are doing good by supporting creators. They have a reviews system, and a views count.
What we know
9Minecraft has a list of all their staff members in their sitemap. I'm not going to list them all, but you can view them by going to their sitemap. Many of the reuploaders (if not all) use cracked Minecraft so we cannot prevent that user from using the project. I've found 2 of the users on CurseForge, but they have never uploaded anything. One of them has one comment on a map. Their submissions are in our name but they include viruses and ads on the submission page. The whole point of this website is to generate money from other's work
What YOU can do
You can raise awareness about these people, so we can all be prepared and protect each other. If someone you know has their pack reuploaded, you can contact them. StopModReposts has a useful list and protection services available, as well as a chrome/firefox/edge extension which will prevent you from accidentally downloading from a site that reuploads packs.
If your pack has been reuploaded, you can contact them on their Contact page. If you do, then they have no choice other than to remove your content, usually with an apology.
And as always, you can share this to raise awareness. Together, we can stop this!
Another post by Anas099: https://www.planetminecraft.com/blog/9minecraft-net-website-and-reuploading-pmc-content-problem/
Many of you might have heard of 9minecraft. It is a site, run by various unknown people, that uploads our content, whether it is protected by a licence or not, and monetises it with adverts. Along with this, they licence the work as their own, which is illegal, even if your work isn't protected by a licence. This is a matter that affects mods, texture packs, datapacks, maps and other PMC projects.
What they do
9minecraft. net is a site run by various unknown (more later) people who take our content and reupload it, with spyware, adware, and ads on the page. The reuploaders are cracked players, meaning there is nothing we can do in the code of our projects to stop them. Once they have downloaded the project, they take new screenshots, a new description, and edit a new thumbnail. They also pretend that you uploaded it, by saying the author is your name:
This is bad. This website, which is illegal and wrong, is stealing our content, adding spyware and malware to it, and giving it to unknowing and trusting members of society who think they are doing good by supporting creators. They have a reviews system, and a views count.
What we know
9Minecraft has a list of all their staff members in their sitemap. I'm not going to list them all, but you can view them by going to their sitemap. Many of the reuploaders (if not all) use cracked Minecraft so we cannot prevent that user from using the project. I've found 2 of the users on CurseForge, but they have never uploaded anything. One of them has one comment on a map. Their submissions are in our name but they include viruses and ads on the submission page. The whole point of this website is to generate money from other's work
What YOU can do
You can raise awareness about these people, so we can all be prepared and protect each other. If someone you know has their pack reuploaded, you can contact them. StopModReposts has a useful list and protection services available, as well as a chrome/firefox/edge extension which will prevent you from accidentally downloading from a site that reuploads packs.
If your pack has been reuploaded, you can contact them on their Contact page. If you do, then they have no choice other than to remove your content, usually with an apology.
And as always, you can share this to raise awareness. Together, we can stop this!
Another post by Anas099: https://www.planetminecraft.com/blog/9minecraft-net-website-and-reuploading-pmc-content-problem/
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What's hilarious is their ToS:
I'm assuming by "our software" they actually mean the content they steal. Which could mean they might be selling the content on another site, but claim they don't know the people selling it. Oh, and ofc they also absolve themselves of responsibility for any malware or viruses in the stolen content.
Copyright of the site's content... wow, okay sure. Using any of "their" content REQUIRES their written consent, guys. Make sure you don't take it without their permission! We don't have the right to use their content just because they uploaded it. *eyeroll*
We are only allowed to abide by the law of whichever county or city the headquarters of the website owner is in. So essentially, what rights do we have as content creators? Which laws are they breaking? Who knows.
If we don't file a proper legal claim within a month after they did the thing that caused the claim, then we forfeit our right to make a claim at all. But we aren't notified of them stealing our content. Wow... I'm pretty sure this doesn't hold up in court (at least where I live...)
You can't just give yourself rights... You have rights granted to you by your country's law, but you can't just give yourself whatever right(s) you wish.
I am not visiting this site to steal material (including Information, Snapshots, and Source-Codes) to use against the Webmaster, Site Operator Host, or any person in any conceivable manner.
Oh how hypocritical. No stealing, and definitely no stealing to smear the owner of the site.
Services or Privacy Policy, please contact our administrators at [url=mailto:(Link removed)](Link removed)[/url].
If anyone would like to send them an email, here's what I wrote.
Edit: Just sent them this email:
All the content you have uploaded of mine is declared All Rights Reserved
via my profile on Modrinth.com and is also stated in my profile on
PlanetMinecraft.com, and I have never given (and will never give) you or
your team permission for you to upload my content. Once again, I have
never even been contacted by your team or any of your representatives.
Again, do NOT upload ANY MORE of my content from either the past, present, or future to any of your websites or your associates' websites. Please also note that at the time of writing this email, PDFs of your website have been saved of the 3 offending pages, your sitemap, contact info, Privacy Policy statement, and Terms of Service statement. Evidence of the previously stolen content uploaded to your site has been gathered as well. This email will also be saved, as well
as a copy of my previous email to you.
Please give me the contact info for your legal team by responding to this email.
Kindly remove the following from your site:
(Link removed)
(Link removed)
(Link removed)
Our agreement moving forward:
Emily Baucom = me/my/I
9Minecraft = you/your/yours
By removing the above listed content from your website OR by contacting me (Emily Baucom, aka Oslypsis), you (9Minecraft) agree to the following:
1. To never upload my (Emily Baucom) Minecraft content to your site, or any of your affiliate sites, regardless of whether I receive a response from you.
2. If any more of my content is uploaded or re-uploaded (either purposefully or accidentally, monetized or not) to your website (or any
affiliate websites), within 7 days upon discovery ("discovery" refers to either yours or mine, whichever comes first), you will:
2a. Remove all of my content immediately from your website and issue a notice to me via email to emilybaucom@outlook.com that my content was uploaded to your site, including which content was uploaded as well as the date of when each piece of content was uploaded ("piece" here refers to file download links that lead, either directly or indirectly, to a download of my content). This shall also include any copyrighted images (such as my logo). Included in the email shall be a notice that "Compensation to Emily Baucom has been/will be sent for copyright infringement of her Minecraft content" and shall include the amount paid, the date the payment was sent, the method of payment, and the name and contact info of the individual who paid the fine.
2b. Pay a compensation fine of $10 to me for each day a file of mine has been uploaded to your site. This includes retroactive payment for the 3 links mentioned above. The payment shall be made via PayPal to https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/emilybaucom94 or via a method that my lawyer approves of. Once sent, this payment cannot be contested or refunded.
3. You also agree to forgo your website's (9Minecraft.com) Terms of Service (ToS) and Privacy Policy, and instead agree that, in the case of legal discrepancies between your ToS/Privacy Policy and the laws of the
United States of America, any further interactions or legal issues stemming from my copyrighted content being uploaded on your website(s) shall be handled under the copyright laws of the United States of America.
5. All communication between you and I will be via email or via our legal representatives.
Keep this email for your records.